Pakistan sends girl shot by Taliban to UK for care

Source: Boston Herald

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan airlifted a 14-year-old activist who was shot and seriously wounded by the Taliban to the United Kingdom for treatment Monday, a move that will give her access to the specialized medical care she needs to recover and also protect her from follow-up attacks threatened by the militants.

The attack on Malala Yousufzai as she was returning home from school in Pakistan’s northwest a week ago has horrified people both across the country and abroad. It has also sparked hope the government would respond by intensifying its fight against the Taliban and their allies.

Over 100 Taliban militants attacked a police station near the main northwest city of Peshawar late Sunday night, sparking a gunbattle that lasted several hours, police said. Six policemen were killed during the clash, including two who were beheaded.

Malala was targeted by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education and criticizing the militant group. Two of Malala’s classmates were also wounded in the attack and are receiving treatment in Pakistan.

3. My Pakistani driver in Dubai

Got PISSED OFF when the subject turned to Malala Yousufzai. He insisted she would not die, and would serve as a uniting symbol for revolution in his country to throw out the Taliban and get back the government he feels has sold out to American and its drone attacks.

4. He connects the Taliban with America?

5. Not directly it appears

But as a controlling force in his country. Dislikes both. We get along well, and I wish I could get him to put his own thoughts down, rather than speaking (typing?) in his place.

To directly answer your question, I don't know. It wouldn't be the first time a group of violent radicals was used by an outside force. But I don't have any evidence of that, and I don't think Hamuun (sp?) was referring to that either.

I'm a little afraid to get him going while he's driving. Traffic here is clown car on steroids... As an aside, the cultural differences are fascinating, and a "hyperview" of the haves and have nots. But I'm not hijacking this thread.

6. I have the same hope as Hamuun, I want this girl to survive and her cause to thrive

I wanted to repost this article in this thread:

Dear Girls -- Here's Why Nasty Old Religious Men Are Terrified of You

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Girls, these things happen because there are men with power who fear you and want to control you. I know that I have equated relatively benign baseball games with deadly, honor killings but, whereas one is a type of daily, seemingly harmless micro-aggression and the other is a lethal macro-aggression they share the same roots. The basis of both, and escalating actions in between, is the same: To teach you, and all girls subject to these men and their authority, a lesson: "Know your place." I also know that there are places where girls are marginalized and hurt that are not religious. But all over the world these hypocritical, pious men, in their shamefully obvious wrongness, represent the sharp-edged tip of an iceberg, the visible surface of a deep and vast harm. They employ the full range of their earthly and divine influence to make sure, as early as possible, that you and the boys around you understand what they want your relative roles to be. Where there are patriarchal religions girls, in dramatically varying and extreme degrees, disproportionately suffer. Understand these men for what they are: bullies. Do not internalize what they would have you believe.

Your very existence makes them anxious. And their anxiety is particularly high because you have something no generation of girls has had before -- globally connected communities of men and women who support your equality and freedom.

10. Prayering

I am praying five times a day that Almighty Allah and/or Almighty God and/or Almighty Yaweh might find the time and/or the mercy in His/Their hearts to wriggle a finger and/or a nose to bless, with complete miraculous success, the finest secular surgeons and medical doctors on the planet in their valiant efforts to salvage the life of the courageous young target of the devoutly fanatic Talibanista assassins....
Hmmm, call me crazy but this does kinda reminds me a wee bit of some of our very own devoutly fanatic Christian assassins religiously hunting, stalking, and exterminating, any and all wicked abortion doctors to near extinction.
Ooops, time to resume my prayering again...